Zodiac Birthstones: Personalize your hand-made birthday cards or scrapbook pages with traditional gems and colors
The origins of these astrological birthstones are most likely the same as for traditional birthstones, arising from the Old and New Testament references to twelve gemstones. Why not include the color and qualities of these birthstones when making a birthday card or gift, or a scrapbook page?
(The astrological dates listed here are approximate, and will vary slightly with the person's year of birth.) Return form Zodiac Birthstones to the Birthday Gifts page
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Zodiac birthstones legendarily
provide protection to the wearer, and
are said to be more powerful when they are engraved with the zodiacal
sign during the correct stars' ascendancy. The
association of precious and semi-precious gems with the
astrological signs of the Zodiac goes back several centuries.
In
the 16th century, Catherine de' Medici is said to have worn a girdle
set with twelve stones bearing all of the zodiacal signs - just to be
safe, we assume.
